Applevariety
Tupstones
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; mildly tart, nutty and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Worcestershire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- nutty
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 65.50 mmHeight 61.00 mm
- Appearance
- high-very high
Origin & family
Where Tupstones began
Recorded origin
Worcestershire, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 65.50 mm
- height
- 61.00 mm
- russet
- high-very high
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.